Is it a musical? A play? It’s more like a Circus! On March 1, 2001, I had the great opportunity to see a very unique Off-Broadway variety show named De La Guarda, written, directed, and designed by Pichon Baldinu and Diqui James. The theatre presenting this show is the Daryl Roth Theatre, which is located at 20 Union Square East, just a few blocks from Baruch College. There were many interesting moments in the show that one would be definitely surprised if he had no prior knowledge about the show
Pancho villa Doroteo Aranga learned to hate aristocratic Dons, who worked he and many other Mexicans like slaves, Doroteo Aranga also known as Pancho villa hated aristocratic because he made them work like animals all day long with little to eat. Even more so, he hated ignorance within the Mexican people that allowed such injustices. At the young age of fifteen, Aranga came home to find his mother trying to prevent the rape of his sister. Aranga shot the man and fled to the Sierra Madre for the
Venturi house vs the Villa Mairea Comparing the Venturi house vs. the Villa Mairea’s relationship to Orthodox Modernism, both Aalto and Venturi rejected the perceived sterility of Orthodox Modern buildings. This rejection led to the development of Post-Modernism in architecture. Both of these architects believed that Orthodox Modernist ultimately produced designs consisting of glass or white boxes and a desensitization for the human scale and form. The idea of Modernism, that form follows function
Case Study: Villas of the 1920’s Le Corbusier and Alvar Alto both designed villas with an idea on modern architecture during the twentieth century. While both designed villas based on their views of twentieth century modern architecture, these villas are very different and are represented in a multitude of different ways. The Villa Savoye, by Le Corbusier, and the Villa Mairea, by Alvar Aalto, are both examples of great architecture during the 1900’s that are both comparative in their own nature
in the Roman Villa Every ancient civilization has architectural feats that influence their culture and society, and the Roman Empire is no exception. The transition into the sophisticated culture the occurred in Roman society is known as Romanization. One large part of this movement was the construction of the Roman Villa. Sellers states, “… the idea of a house built away from the city in a natural setting captured the imagination of wealthy patrons and architects,” (1). Roman Villas had great influence
Born as José Doroteo Arango Arámbula on the 5th of June in 1878, Pancho Villa later in life became one of the most important and controversial leaders of the Mexican Revolution. As being one of the most ionic symbols in Mexican history, Pancho Villa made a lot of choices in life that in the end ended his life but made such a huge impact on the Mexican society today. Is Pancho Villa really a “hero” as some people make him out to be or is he someone that doesn’t deserve the recognition that he gets
of possessing very lavish country homes, known as villas, to escape the hectic city life. Accommodations for both parties had very different and similar designs. Villas in Rome, as aforesaid, were homes for members of the upper-class. There were three types of villa, the villa rustica, villa urbana and the villa maritima. The villa rustica was a self-sufficient farming estate with lots of slaves working on it. The slaves lived in or around the villa and took care of the fields. They harvested produce
the morning of March 9, 1916, a number of Villista’s armed to the teeth crossed the border attacking the small town of Columbus, New Mexico. The United States suffered its first attack on its soil since the War of 1812. General Francisco “Poncho” Villa raided and torched the city.1 Washington responded by sending Brigadier General John “Black Jack” Pershing, which lead the “Punitive Expedition” into Mexico.2 Fidel Castro, Ho Chi Minh, Mao Tse-tung, “Che” Guevara, Osama bin Laden and others have professed
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) was one of the leading composers of nationalism in the 20th century in Brazil. He has been recognized for his achievement in creating unique compositional styles in which contemporary European techniques such as Impressionism and reinterpreted elements of national music are combined. He collected many original folk tunes through trips to the various areas of Brazil. Villa-Lobos introduced the South American music to the West by using both materials of western contemporary
Palladio”(Matthews And Platt 340). The work that Palladio is most synonymous with is the Villa Capra, also known as the Villa Rotunda. The Villa Rotunda, based on the Classical design of a Roman farmhouse, was built for a wealthy Venetian (Matthews and Platt 340,341). The Villa highlights Classical principles of architecture in a number of ways. Palladio employed the use of colonnaded porticoes in the Villa, a covered porch supported by columns, which is typically located at the front of...
Harassment or a Misunderstanding: The case of Amanda Stein In the article, Harassment or a Misunderstanding: the case of Amanda Stein, Amanda Stein, leads technical support engineer was facing continuous harassment by her manager Frank Villa. I believe Frank Villa’s attitude towards Amanda Stein was unacceptable because she was being unfairly treated by the fact that she is a woman, and moreover, by the fact that she is Jew. In today’s society, the issue of harassment in the work place is a very
La Rotonda One of the great architects in time was Andrea Palladio, who was made famous for his magnificent Villas built in Italy in the fifteen hundreds. To do so he drew from the Greek and Roman’s architecture, studying many of their finest works, to create his masterful villas. This process would develop into a style of architecture, which became known as Palladianism. This style has inspired buildings which have dominated the landscape for the last four hundred years. These buildings include:
expect. Evans describes this in his article ‘Figures, Doors and Passages’ for that “If anything is described by an Architectural Plan, it is the nature of human relationships” (Evans, 1978, pg73). The planning of domestic spaces in 16th century Italian Villas were designed in a matrix of connected spaces which answered to the social mannerism of the day and this can been seen though the planning of spaces in response to closeness, classes and accidental social encounters with the occupants. This can then
The origin of Frankenstein is almost as mysterious and exciting as the novel itself. It all began back in the summer of 1816 at the Villa Diodati on the shores of Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Mary Shelley seems not to condemn the act of creation but rather Frankenstein’s lack of willingness to accept the responsibility for his deeds. His creation only becomes a monster at the moment his creator deserts it. Essentially, Frankenstein warns of the careless use of science which is still an important issue
was under the control of the emperor Nero. Considered a tyrant and self-centered even for an aristocrat at the time, Nero became very unpopular towards the end of his reign, but not before he was able to commission the construction of a marvelous villa for himself stretching over two hundred acres in the center of Rome where the fires had destroyed most of the original buildings. Commonly called The Golden House of Nero, it was originally given the more formal name of Domus Aurea, and was and still
staring out my window I am staring out my window, thinking. "Will it always be like this," I wonder? Where will I be next year? Or in 20 years? Who will I be with? When will it change? Will I live in a fabulous villa in Tuscany? Spending my days, staring out at the beautiful Italian countryside, approving continental dinner party menu's and calligraphied place settings on thick pressed parchment, kissing my beautiful children before the nanny takes them poolside to play
Roman Houses Roman houses evolved from the thatched-roof huts of the original roman civilization to the great villas of the late empire. Roman houses were not only built in Italy. There were Roman houses built in Greece, Africa, and Britain. Roman houses were one story high, the villas of the wealthy were sometimes two. Walls were built of cement covered in stucco or sun-dried bricks which were commonly used until the beginning of the first century B.C. Although the concrete walls were weatherproof
sale of their estate, the Cherry Orchard. The main character in the play is the owner of the Cherry Orchard, Lyubov Andreyevna. It is in the play that Lyubov must ultimately decide whether to allow her Cherry Orchard to be cut down to make room for villas or to sell the entire estate to pay off her debts. It is her unconditional love for both the Cherry Orchard and what it symbolizes to her that allows her to put the estate up for sale rather than have the Cherry Orchard cut down. Although she is
drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.” In this quotation Corbusier describes just how important the role of the visual is to him. Experience is not necessary, and neither is discussion, just visualization. In the case of Villa Savoye (Poissy, France 1928-1929) Corbusier created a building based upon his principles of architecture, and the idea of the house as a machine for living. These programmatic elements yielded a simple building that followed his five points of architecture
On June 5th, 1878 the man who would one day become a celebrated cultural icon of the Mexican people, Pancho Villa, was born. Originally named Doroteo Arango, he was born into a poor labour class family living in San Juan del Río, Durango, Mexico. To understand the man and the choices he made, one must understand the world into which he was born (Johnson, 2017). Mexico in the late 19th and early 20th century was experiencing great cultural and economic change, but with these changes came unrest and